I was watching Miami ink when two of the stars were talking about baseball as they were designing a tatoo for the Miami team. One said baseball was a Latin game and the other guy chastised him saying it was invented in America. Well, right and wrong. The earliest recorded game of baseball was played on June 4, 1838 in Beachville, Ontario in Canada; a year later the first game recorded in USA was played in Cooperstown, NY. So the Great American Pastime is CANADIAN Baby!
F.Y.I. the inventor of basketball was Canadian, too.
Guess what else, Alexander Graham Bell was a great Canadian inventor! (He just worked in the USA for awhile).
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And Howie Mandel, did I mention he's Canadian?
Back on the topic of sports, did you know what the oldest professional football trophy in North America is?? The CFL's Grey cup isn't too far shy of 100 years!

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Originally posted by canadiangal:
I was watching Miami ink when two of the stars were talking about baseball as they were designing a tatoo for the Miami team. One said baseball was a Latin game and the other guy chastised him saying it was invented in America. Well, right and wrong. The earliest recorded game of baseball was played on June 4, 1838 in Beachville, Ontario in Canada; a year later the first game recorded in USA was played in Cooperstown, NY. So the Great American Pastime is CANADIAN Baby!
F.Y.I. the inventor of basketball was Canadian, too.
Guess what else, Alexander Graham Bell was a great Canadian inventor! (He just worked in the USA for awhile).

You actually are partially incorrect about Bell. He actually was born in Edinburgh Scotland and didn't move to Canada until he was 23. While he always owned a home in Canada, he also at the age of 25 lived in the US; and became a Naturalized US Citizen at the age of 35. The Bell family maintained a residence in Washington, DC, where Bell maintained his laboratory. While he alternated between the two homes, he spent the majority of his time in his DC laboratory.

As for baseball, several forms of its history pop up all over the world, and actually no one can claim ownership. However, the first published rules of baseball were written in 1845 for a New York (Manhattan) baseball club called the Knickerbockers. Because it's the first written account of rules, it's generally given credit. Jeff Idelson of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York has stated, "Baseball wasn't really born anywhere," meaning that the evolution of the game was long and continuous and has no clear, identifiable single origin.

he origins of the game of basketball can be traced back to a gentleman by the name of Dr. James Naismith. In 1861, Naismith was born in Almonte, Ontario, Canada. During his early school days, Naismith would play a game called duck on a rock whereby the child would endeavor to knock the duck off the top of the rock with a toss of another rock. Later on, Naismith would go on to McGill University in Montreal and would later become McGill University’s Athletic Director.

He then subsequently moved to the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts and in 1891, the game of basketball was born. So, while he was Canadian, the game was born in the U.S.